A New Evangelizing Foreign Policy

In the Bush years, liberals were routinely shock-and-awed that the Bush
administration would obliterate their sacred wall of separation between
church and state. They frowned on federal faith-based initiatives and
worried about the bureaucracy being invaded by frightening people with
college degrees from Christian schools like Liberty University or Regent
University or Catholic University.

Government was no place to be spreading a dangerous Christian
majoritarianism with a swaggering certitude that wouldn’t tolerate
opposing views and respect minority opinions. The media presented the
Bushies as – to quote a slur from NBC anchor Brian Williams – “anti-gay,
pro-Jesus, and anti-abortion, and no gray matter in between.”

But what happened when the Obama administration came in and imposed its
own gospel, the good news of “LGBT inclusion”? Interviewing her Hillary
Clinton a few days ago, NPR host Terry Gross first honored her for
really pushing socially leftist ideology as Secretary of State,
especially on transgender rights. “You added gender identity to the
State Department's Equal Employment Opportunity policy, and you made it
easier for Americans to change their sex on their passport.”

This spirit of the age was demonstrated at the Vice President’s mansion
on Tuesday, where Joe Biden, who regularly boasts about his Catholic
schooling (though apparently he learned nothing about Catholic thought),
said hidebound old religious cultures had to be junked in every nation
on the planet. “I don’t care what your culture is,” Biden thundered to
about 100 guests. “Inhumanity is inhumanity is inhumanity! Prejudice is
prejudice is prejudice!”

We are counting the days until this buffoon is retired.

In this administration, there is no respect for opposing views on
marriage or gender or homosexuality, especially those based on religion.
They must be eliminated as “prejudice.”

In
2011, the State Department created a public-private “Global Equality
Fund” to subsidize leftist LGBT advocacy groups around the world. They
boast they’ve “provided over $7.5 million to civil society in over 50
countries worldwide” to build an “organizational capacity for human
rights documentation, advocacy, legal reform, and organizational
development” and “to combat negative social attitudes and societal
discrimination.” How's that for a good use of tax dollars?

And that's not all. In 2013, the U.S. Agency for International
Development created an LGBT Global Development Partnership that will
“contribute $11 million over the next four years to advocacy groups in
Ecuador, Honduras, Guatemala and other developing countries.”

In his new book “Making Gay Okay,” Robert Reilly offers an entire
chapter on the promotion of this libertine-left agenda as a major
objective of U.S. foreign policy. In El Salvador, acting ambassador Mari
Carmen Aponte wrote an op-ed in a Salvadoran newspaper in 2011 titled
"For the Elimination of Prejudices Wherever They Exist."

Aponte wrote: "No one should be subjected to aggression because of who
he is or who he loves. Homophobia and brutal hostility are often based
on lack of understanding about what it truly means to be gay or
transgender,” an ignorance spread by “those who promote hatred."

Which includes nearly everyone who promotes the Bible.

Around the world, the Obama administration has been thrilled to hold
“Gay Pride” events at U.S. embassies promoting the LGBT agenda from
Kenya to Laos to Pakistan. The State Department promotes the
legalization and normalization of the whole libertine laundry list.

The leftist website Jezebel explained that this policy “could be seen
as a new type of neo-colonialist interference by the United States.” The
developing world isn’t developing fast enough for Obama, Biden,
Clinton, and now John Kerry. The U.S. message for a new American
Century? Religious people should just shut up, because “prejudice is
prejudice is prejudice.”

Federal employees and military personnel can donate to the Media Research Center through the Combined Federal Campaign or CFC. To donate to the MRC, use CFC #12489. Visit the CFC website for more information about giving opportunities in your workplace.